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[-] solrize@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Height in centimeters? I don't entirely get this.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

Height in centimeters?

Yeah, it's in centimeters. 158 cm is 0.000853132 and 188 is 0.00101512 in nautical miles, if that helps any.

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Alternatively, as a smaller scale, 158 cm and 188 cm are only 0.01727909011373578 and 0.020559930008748905 football fields, respectively. Hope this helps.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Sometimes, that 0.00328084th of a football field makes all the difference in the world...

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 25 points 4 months ago

Yeah I had to read it twice to figure it wasn't years. And I use metric, so I know exactly how tall these two are but for some reason it didn't click on the first read

[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 15 points 4 months ago

It would be easier if it was 1.88 and 1.56 :)

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 months ago

I think the anime picture adds to it. I thought it was about the "my witch girlfriend is actually 500 just in a childs body so its not pedophilia"

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I guess one upside of living in a country that uses both metric and imperial frequently is that these things tend to click pretty quickly. The lack of consistency is annoying, though.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 20 points 4 months ago

It's nothing. Without a unit those are just numbers. A can of coke isn't 12, it's 12floz.

Or so my metric companions don't shit themselves in their panic-induced rage at the sight of imperial units, a coke can isn't 355, it's 355mL.

[-] gentooer@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago
[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'll accept the lowercase L (in my East Coast based US education we were taught liters should also be capital L, but that seems to either be flat-out incorrect or have fallen out of fashion), but googling images of the cans shows me no space between the number and the unit.

[-] gentooer@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I hadn't even noticed that you didn't put a space between the number and the unit. Looking it up online, the Bureau international des poids et mesures states that a space is to be used in front of all units, except for °, ' and ". Dropping the space is very common though.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

It's cool to learn the official guidelines; thanks for doing the legwork here!

[-] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

No, in feet, they're actually giants.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Practice using metric. Not kidding, as an American it’s sometimes frustrating but most things are available in metric and there is a quite large convenience factor

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I can tolerate distances in metric, but I draw the line at personal measurements!

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

not me. my banana seems way bigger in metric than imperial

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

5 cm is perfectly adequate according to my wife

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

millimeters, they are Irish

[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago
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